10th IDRiM Cafe

31 October 2022 @ 12:00 (UTC)Speaker
Bhesh Raj Thapa
Assistant Professor Water resourceengineering, Institute of Technology,
Tribhuban University, Kathmandu

Associate Professor Dr. Thapa is the Principal of the Universal Engineering andScience College (UESC) affiliated to the Pokhara University of Nepal sinceJune 2019. He obtained his PhD in Integrated River Basin Management from
University of Yamanashi, Japan, 2017, and his M.Sc. in Water Resources
Engineering from the Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University,
Kathmandu in 2010. Earlier, he taught in the Himalaya College of Engineering,affiliated to the Tribhuvan University of Nepal for more than ten years serving
also as the Vice-Principal.
Apart from his teaching experience, Prof. Thapa has served as a consultant tothe World Bank and to a host of Nepalese government agencies in donor(USAID, ACIAR, DFID, ADB) supported projects as a water resources specialist,
in many as the PI. He served as a member in the research team formulatedby the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority of Nepal(NDRRMA) for the study of the June 15, 2021, Melamchi Debris Flow Disaster.
Prof. Thapa has published more than 35 research papers pertaining to water
resources in international and national peer-reviewed journals, and a host ofarticles in national publications.

SpeakerRajendra SHARMASenior Divisional Hydrologist with theNational Disaster Risk Reduction andManagement Authority (NDRRMA) of Nepal

Mr. Rajendra Sharma holds a Master of Disaster Management fromICHARM/GRIPS, another Master of Science in Geology fromTribhuvan University. He currently serves as a Senior Divisional
Hydrologist with the National Disaster Risk Reduction andManagement Authority (NDRRMA) of Nepal. Earlier he served as aHydrologist with the Department of Department of Hydrology andMeteorology and with the Department of Water Induced Disaster
Prevention.
Mr. Sharma currently leads the Project for strengthening disasterrisk governance for resilience in the Kathmandu Valley (REKV)for
the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority(NDRRMA). He has rich research experience in climate resilience,glacier lakes outbursts floods (GLOFs) and hydrological studies ofdifferent basins of Nepal.

Speaker
Pankaj Kumar
Researcher, Centre of Excellence in Disaster
Mitigation & Management, Indian Instituteof Technology Roorkee, India
Mr. Pankaj Kumar obtained his Master's and Ph.D. degrees from the Centreof Excellence in Disaster Mitigation & Management (CoEDMM), Indian
Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. His research interests are in Early
Warning Systems, Engineering Seismology, Instrumentation andNetworking of Sensors, Ground Motion Data Analysis, Artificial NeuralNetworks, Machine Learning, Design & Analysis of Algorithms, andapplication of science and technology in disaster mitigation solutions.
Presently, he is working in the Earthquake Early Warning System Laboratory
at CoEDMM, IIT Roorkee, India as a disaster risk reduction professional. He
carries out the development and maintenance server, database andnetworking of the sensors. He has done work on evacuation planning ofsignificant mass events. He has developed a ground motion prediction
model for the Uttarakhand region and published this research in a scientificjournal. He has been associated with developing the first earthquake early
warning system in India from its start. This EEW system is for theUttarakhand region, a Himalayan state of India. He has classified those sites
where sensors are installed in the seismogenic region of Uttarakhand. He iscurrently involved in the software development and upgradation of theearthquake warning dissemination approach and its integration with otherexisting systems (i.e., flood, fire, cloud burst, etc.).

Speaker
Srikrishnan Siva
SubramanianAssistant Professor, Centre of Excellence inDisaster Mitigation and Management(CoEDMM) , Indian Institute of Technology
Roorkee (IITR) , India

Dr S. Srikrishnan holds a master’s in Geosciences (M.Sc.) from
Bharathidasan University, India and a Doctorate of Engineering (DrEng.) in Field Engineering for the Environment (GeotechnicalEngineering) from Hokkaido University, Japan. His research
specializes in understanding the mechanisms of shallow landslidesand debris flows initiation induced by rainfall and snowmelt. For this,he employs insitu monitoring, laboratory-scale experiments andslope/catchment-scale process-based numerical modelling. In his
doctorate research, he focused on modelling the frozen ground,
cold region hydrology, snow accumulation, and melt processes toanalyze the slope stability and triggering of debris flows. In his
recent works, he focuses on understanding the hillslope hydrologyof shallow landslides and debris flows to develop thresholds forearly warning systems (EWS) at slope scale and catchment scale. He
has worked in the development of real-time landslide EWS in Japanand is currently in the process of employing the same in the Indian
Himalayas.

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17:30 pm

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